Originally Posted by
dcmike
Once, my partner and I were flying TATL on UA, connecting from another city through IAD. Our original flight to IAD went mechanical, we had to be sent to IAD on another flight, getting us to the gate moments before our TATL flight took off. Both of us ended up in C. I'm *G, he's nothing. We were on separate PNRs. Clearly it wasn't my status that got us both in business.
What likely happened in this case is Y was oversold, and your seats were given away since the system thought you would misconnect. When you showed up at the gate, they had to give you guys seats, so they gave you C (all they had left)